Who Would You Put In The Raptor's Starting Five?

TO has already played 4 preseason games with 4 more left it's rotation setting time so who do you think Jay should start in 2010-11? I can only upload 10 choices so I will make nine player selections with 1 write in vote for the players not listed. Please only make 5 selections, thanx.

I would go with (until Davis is healthy):

Bargnani
Evans
Kleiza
Barbosa
Jack

When Davis is healthy:

Bargnani
Davis
Kleiza
Barbosa
Jack

With Weems as the 6th man, Johnson as the 1st big off the bench, Jose backing up Jack & DeMar rounding out my 9 man rotation.

Jack, DeRozen, Keiza, Johnson, and Bargs. When Davis get's healthy he should gradually be moved into a starting role, maybe sometime after the All-Star break. I also think Dorsey should see some minutes at the four.

"When Life gives you lemons, you clone those Lemons to make super lemons!"
-Scudworth

Jack - definitely like him with this group but I like xgm1 when jj and Jose went 6mins each q
DD - time to put up...period. He is ready to grow but needs the time on the court
Kleiza - the stabiliser of the group
Amir - with Evans and Dorsey mins to bang if or when amir gets into foul trouble and Davis to grow into on return
Bargnani - assumes he regains his shooting touch could lose this position.

Barbosa, Weems and jose primary off the bench with dorsey, Anderson and Evans secondary (for as long as he is around.)

Calderon brings a calming effect to the starting lineup and is a better distributor, which would help get the other players (especially Bargnani) good looks early on, to get their heads into the game. Jack would be a scoring punch off the bench and I think he would team with Barbosa, Weems and Johnson to make for a very quick, athletic second unit that could do serious damage. I could easily see Jack playing more minutes overall than Calderon, but I like what Calderon brings to the table at the start of games.

I don't think Johnson should start until he can prove he can stay on the floor for 8-10 minutes straight without consistently getting into foul trouble. I like the defense/rebounding that Davis/Dorsey/Evans bring to the starting lineup alongside Bargnani. Davis would be my top choice when healthy because he has the best offensive game of these three players, which puts less pressure on Bargnani from the start (Evans' defender doesn't even need to cover him, he can just double Bargnani).

Yup call me crazy but Bargs is out of the starting line up. He just slows the team down in terms of progress and development. If he starts, he will be the main centre piece and focus on the team, which idealy is not true. I think his time should be up in Toronto and DeRozan, Kleiza, Weems and Davis have a shot to make it "their" team.

I could argue having Weems starting to build chemistry with DeRozan, Jack and Davis as that will be a devistating group of guys, assuming they mesh together.